FELTON'S FARMHOUSE

FELTON'S FARMHOUSE, ELMERS GREEN LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219613
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1993
List Entry Name:: FELTON'S FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: FELTON'S FARMHOUSE, ELMERS GREEN LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219613
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1993
List Entry Name:: FELTON'S FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: FELTON'S FARMHOUSE, ELMERS GREEN LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FELTON'S FARMHOUSE, ELMERS GREEN LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: West Lancashire (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 50112 06583

Details

SKELMERSDALE

SD50NW ELMERS GREEN LANE 783-1/2/10 (East side) Felton's Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Probably later C16 or very early C17, reduced and remodelled with addition in C18, and subsequently altered. Timber-frame subsequently clad with sandstone and rendered, with scored stucco to the front and right-hand end, roofs of C20 interlocking concrete tiles, brick chimneys. Double-pile plan formed by a single-depth main range (reduced to 2 wide bays flanking a central chimney stack) with a secondary range added to the rear. The 2-storey 2-window front range has a C20 gabled stone porch at the left end, a 2-light casement window to the first bay, 2 similar casements to the 2nd bay, one oblong 3-light casement at 1st floor of each bay, a chimney on the centre of the ridge and another at the right-hand gable. The lower 2-storey 3-window C18 range at the rear has a C20 gabled porch offset to the right and small 2-light casements on both floors. The principal features of interest are in the INTERIOR, where the rear wall of the front range is entirely timber-framed and the wall-plate of the front wall shows that this also is (or was) similarly timber-framed. The framing of the rear wall is of 2:1:2 structural bays, with a stone plinth, timber sill, full-height wall-posts, one intermediate rail and straight angle-braces to the wall-plate. The front wall-plate has pairs of peg holes for a similar series of posts (which may be concealed in the masonry). The narrower centre bay, perhaps formerly a smoke-bay, contains the chimney stack which has a stone heck near to the rear wall, with a chamfered end facing into the west room (the 1st bay) but the top part rebuilt and the bressumer or stone arch of the original fireplace replaced by a beam at ceiling level. At ground floor, each main bay has a chamfered lateral beam, that in the 1st bay with broach stops. At 1st floor the chimney stack is framed by the roof trusses (see below); the 2nd bay has a large stone Tudor-arched chamber fireplace flanked by wooden Tudor-arched doorways built into the cross-frame, that to the right probably indicating that access to this room was by a staircase on the north side of the stack, and that to the left, which is much smaller and has a board door, opening into the void on the south side of the stack. The trusses, of principal-rafter type with raked struts, have carpenter's marks (CCCC and CCC on the east truss, IIII and III on the west truss), straight wind-braces to trenched over-lapped purlins on the north side and vacant wind-brace housings on the south side; the tie-beam of the west truss has been severed at the north end to make a small doorway into 1st bay, but remains of a plank panelled partition to the side of this indicate that the frame was formerly closed in this position; and this bay has a stone flagged floor. HISTORY: the carpenter's marks indicate that the timber-framed range was formerly longer; this fact, and the quality of the framing, suggest that this was probably the largest and oldest of the surviving farmhouses at Elmers Green. Forms a group with the barn approx 20 metres north (qv).

Listing NGR: SD5011206583

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Legacy System number:: 388973
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.